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medicare is going to go bankrupt in the year 2024. i don't want medicare to go bankrupt. i want to fix medicare. but i want to make sure seniors in america and wisconsin are protected. only those that are going to be under the age of 50 by the year 2000 will have a choice, not a voucher like she says, i have never supported a voucher. what i support is a program that if you are 50 and under and they will make a choice to go with medicare or go with the federal help employees benefit, which congresswoman baldwin and all the people in congress and the president gets. that's a much better approach. it's good if not better than medicare. all seniors would be taken care of. all these young people would have something to protect them when they get to that age. >> the note of the plan but you just proposed, would save more money than what we are doing? >> it was introduced by a couple u.s. centers and they said it would save medicare. i would like to see it. at least it's a plan. paul ryan has a plan. tommy thompson has a plan. we have been waiting for months and years for barac
medicare is going to go bankrupt in the year 2024. i don't want medicare to go bankrupt. i want to fix medicare. but i want to make sure seniors in america and wisconsin are protected. only those that are going to be under the age of 50 by the year 2000 will have a choice, not a voucher like she says, i have never supported a voucher. what i support is a program that if you are 50 and under and they will make a choice to go with medicare or go with the federal help employees benefit, which...
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i do not want medicare to go bankrupt. i want to be sure seniors in america and wisconsin are protected and only those under the age of 50 by the year 2000 will have a choice, not a voucher. i have never supported a voucher. i support a program for those individuals under 50 will have a choice. >> through the weekend, watch more debates. starting saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> let's get the album that documents the college family during the white house years -- coolidge family during the white house years. part of the family papers. several boxes of other documents. the photographs are heavy. the album should be in the back of the box. here it is. unfortunately, it is on black acidic paper. there is not much we can do about that because we do not want to change the nature of the album itself. it is starting to crack and some of these pages are separating. this is a photograph of a cow and coolidge the day before he became president -- of calvin coolidge the day before he became president. he did have
i do not want medicare to go bankrupt. i want to be sure seniors in america and wisconsin are protected and only those under the age of 50 by the year 2000 will have a choice, not a voucher. i have never supported a voucher. i support a program for those individuals under 50 will have a choice. >> through the weekend, watch more debates. starting saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> let's get the album that documents the college family during the white house years --...
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medicare that scares me. also how can you vote for even stand for -- i'm sorry but our president and in ben gazzie when that whole group lied for weeks on what happened there. blaming a movie and when they knew two hours later the truth. i'm really sorry for you, sir. and you talk about spending money. how about our recall 13 billion or million dollars for the recall? ridiculous. thank you. guest: well, there's a lot going on in that call. let me see what i can do to address it. tammy baldwin representative of the second congressional district since 1998 and a fabulous job did give up her seat to run for the senate. mark is a democrat running there going to be our next member of congress we're very excited about that. in reference to that $716 billion, that was money that was allocated to actually defray costs and make medicare solvent for a little bit longer. sort of the biggest lie the republicans tell this cycle that the president stole $716 billion from medicare. what he did was he talked to a bunch of pe
medicare that scares me. also how can you vote for even stand for -- i'm sorry but our president and in ben gazzie when that whole group lied for weeks on what happened there. blaming a movie and when they knew two hours later the truth. i'm really sorry for you, sir. and you talk about spending money. how about our recall 13 billion or million dollars for the recall? ridiculous. thank you. guest: well, there's a lot going on in that call. let me see what i can do to address it. tammy baldwin...
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. >> let's wish to medicare. do you support paul wright and's plan that would change medicare for people who are 55 -- under the age of 55? some people have called it a vulture system. >> i support saving medicare, in favor of the principles of the ryan plan. it was a group of principals. the whole goal was to save medicare. i was in the east room of the white house. the president has no plan to save medicare. he entered has that his plan is obamacare. most seniors have no idea that president obama's plan is that medicare will go away and senior citizens will go into obamacare. most seniors understand that obamacare will mean a deny of care for seniors. that is not what i mean. >> michele bachmann wants to eliminate both medicare and social security. >> that is wrong. he just made a false statement. >> can i talk please? here's the situation. we have to say this to programs to get serious. i put on the floor that let's raise the social security cap. the rabbit and it takes social security for many years. seniors
. >> let's wish to medicare. do you support paul wright and's plan that would change medicare for people who are 55 -- under the age of 55? some people have called it a vulture system. >> i support saving medicare, in favor of the principles of the ryan plan. it was a group of principals. the whole goal was to save medicare. i was in the east room of the white house. the president has no plan to save medicare. he entered has that his plan is obamacare. most seniors have no idea that...
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>> medicare is run efficiently. the overhead costs on medicare is much more efficient than any private insurance company. i have spent the last 10 years in health care. i know medicare pretty well. here is what i would propose changing. make sure medicare can be here for the current generation and the generation after that. it is a promise we have made to the seniors. it keeps them out of poverty. we need to make sure that medicare can negotiate prescription drug prices. right now they are not allowed to do that. we need to make sure that electronic records are implemented and used to make sure patients are not getting over prescribed drugs or they are not, the health care is redundant. we can coordinate care with the help of electronic health records and the provisions, we can do that. i have seen great successes where i work and i know that has potential savings for the medicare system. >> the fact of the matter is, medicare is going broke. it will be insolvent in 2024. i am the only one sitting here that has back
>> medicare is run efficiently. the overhead costs on medicare is much more efficient than any private insurance company. i have spent the last 10 years in health care. i know medicare pretty well. here is what i would propose changing. make sure medicare can be here for the current generation and the generation after that. it is a promise we have made to the seniors. it keeps them out of poverty. we need to make sure that medicare can negotiate prescription drug prices. right now they...
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also front page of the "wall street journal" medicare complicates the senior vote. senior citizens are a coveted bloc in florida where three make bum a quarter of the electr elee and they are important to romney given the deficit among young voters and minorities. he needs not only to win among seniors but win big. in 2008 john phmccain captured e group by 8% margin but lost to president barack obama. mr. romney is leading among the elderly by 6% to 12% a sign he may be weathering a charge by democrats that he and ryan with undermine medicare. that is the "wall street journal" this morning latest on that. if you are interested in the state of florida that is the first state we started in our series last wednesday. so, if you go to c-span tkaurpbg and type in -- c-span.org and type in florida you can watch those segments. frank in gulfport, mississippi, independent caller. what do you think is the trust level in government? caller: well, ma'am, i think the white house, president barack oba obama, is a fine president and to me it doesn't matter who becomes president.
also front page of the "wall street journal" medicare complicates the senior vote. senior citizens are a coveted bloc in florida where three make bum a quarter of the electr elee and they are important to romney given the deficit among young voters and minorities. he needs not only to win among seniors but win big. in 2008 john phmccain captured e group by 8% margin but lost to president barack obama. mr. romney is leading among the elderly by 6% to 12% a sign he may be weathering a...
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we mention this hr 676, medicare for all. a big lie on tv about me, for weeks and weeks, commercial to commercial, i listened to seniors who are scared because of this deceitful wife saying i want to get rid of medicare. nothing is further from the truth. i was with a group of $20,000 to advocate for expanding and improving medicare for all. i think it is shameful to run those commercials. >> 30 seconds. >> the plan you have advocated for calls medicare for all during your previous runs for congress and during your time advocating for a national health-care system, hr 676. it is the furthest thing from medicare as we know it today. it will create a new bureaucracy. it will cost $1.70 trillion a year and take away ability to seek treatment where and when. it is not what the medicare system of today is like. >> our next question is for candidate gill. do you see a role for federal government in education or should it be with the states? >> a lot of the decisions regarding education should be made at the state level. and local l
we mention this hr 676, medicare for all. a big lie on tv about me, for weeks and weeks, commercial to commercial, i listened to seniors who are scared because of this deceitful wife saying i want to get rid of medicare. nothing is further from the truth. i was with a group of $20,000 to advocate for expanding and improving medicare for all. i think it is shameful to run those commercials. >> 30 seconds. >> the plan you have advocated for calls medicare for all during your previous...
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the medicare trust fund is last ing longer. he lengthened the life of medicare by eight years, closed the donut hole and saved the average senior $600 and we help them buy insurance at pre- existing conditions. romney's position is "repeal it. to heck with people with preexisting conditions. bring it down to 2016." and he says, "oh, i have to do this. these insurance companies won't cover anyone in medicare advantage." really? if if that is true we ought to know because that law is in effect for right now. what happened last year? he had a number of companies providing medicare advantage to 17% of people who are paying 16% less. president obama strengthened health-care. i want to say something about energy. ohio is not just about gas and coal. you also people working in the solar and wind industry. mitt romney's policy is all of the above except nothing for wind and nothing for solar. we have 100,000 americans working in the solar industry today. the prices are dropping. we rank first or second in the world in the ability to ge
the medicare trust fund is last ing longer. he lengthened the life of medicare by eight years, closed the donut hole and saved the average senior $600 and we help them buy insurance at pre- existing conditions. romney's position is "repeal it. to heck with people with preexisting conditions. bring it down to 2016." and he says, "oh, i have to do this. these insurance companies won't cover anyone in medicare advantage." really? if if that is true we ought to know because that...
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it is so draconian that would require deep cuts in social security and medicare over time. or we can embrace a balanced approach. that's what i support. i think we can go back to the kind of tax rates we had under the clinton administration when the upper income earners were doing well and the entire economy was growing. we will have to make some tough choices. a balanced approach is the only approach i believe will get us there. >> your rebuttal? >> it's amazing to me that you can stand here having voted 4 trillion dollar deficits for the last of four years, the largest, fastest debt increase in american history and say we have to control spending. you've done nothing to control spending over the last four years. with respect to cut, cap, and balance, it's amazing to me that the idea of cutting wasteful spending, capping the ability of congress to spend money we don't have, and balancing the budget is extreme. i think it would force congress to set priorities and stop funding things like solyndra and to prioritize things like social security, medicare, and education. that'
it is so draconian that would require deep cuts in social security and medicare over time. or we can embrace a balanced approach. that's what i support. i think we can go back to the kind of tax rates we had under the clinton administration when the upper income earners were doing well and the entire economy was growing. we will have to make some tough choices. a balanced approach is the only approach i believe will get us there. >> your rebuttal? >> it's amazing to me that you can...
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i do not want medicare to go bankrupt. i want to fix medicare, but i want to make sure seniors in america are protected, and only those under the age of 50 by the year 2000 will have a choice. what i support is that those individuals 50 and under will make a choice. the federal health employees benefit comes from involvement. >> through the weekend, what more debates from key house, senate, and governor's races starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> we join mitt romney for his campaign rally in virginia. after that, washington journal examines virginia as a battleground states followed by the montana senate debate between the senator and his republican challenger. now we join in it romney campaigning. first we hear from virginia republicans and george allen, eric kanter. this is an hour. >> ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. are you ready for america's comeback? that is great. that is what we have been hearing from people all across the commonwealth of virginia. people care about jobs. they care about the future o
i do not want medicare to go bankrupt. i want to fix medicare, but i want to make sure seniors in america are protected, and only those under the age of 50 by the year 2000 will have a choice. what i support is that those individuals 50 and under will make a choice. the federal health employees benefit comes from involvement. >> through the weekend, what more debates from key house, senate, and governor's races starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> we join mitt romney for his...
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they are saying that we, we are hurting medicare. ladies and gentlemen, you know anyone on medicare? you are better off now than you were before we came in. $600 more for the doughnut hole. no co pay. saying to your doctor, no co pay for the annual visit. we have made it solvent. they would wipe it all out. the real secret, the real thing they are not talking about, are they going to talk about the convention? they are not talking about it now. the central element of the budget, they literally eliminated medicare as a guarantee program. even that train agrees with me. even the railroad knows i am telling the truth. [applause] here's the deal, here is the deal, you should all be aware of this, call-up anyone reaching the age of 65, when they become eligible for their new medicare plan, anyone who is automatically off of medicare, you can buy back in with a voucher. they would give you a coupon. but the coupon is designed not to keep pace with the cost of health care. that is why every outside group points out that it will cost seniors
they are saying that we, we are hurting medicare. ladies and gentlemen, you know anyone on medicare? you are better off now than you were before we came in. $600 more for the doughnut hole. no co pay. saying to your doctor, no co pay for the annual visit. we have made it solvent. they would wipe it all out. the real secret, the real thing they are not talking about, are they going to talk about the convention? they are not talking about it now. the central element of the budget, they literally...
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we'll save medicare and social security. both for current and near retirees and for the generation to come. we'll restore the $716 billion that president obama has taken from medicare to pay for his vaunted obut macare. we'll reform health care. tame its growth. and the cost that's been skyrocketing to provide for those with pre-existing conditions as well and to assure that every american has access to health care. we're going to replace government choice in health care with consumer choice. bring the dynamics of the marketplace to a sector that's too long been dominated by government. now these things among others we can only do if we work tirelessly to bridge the divide between the political parties. we're going to meet with democrat and republican leaders in washington regularly. we're going to look for common ground and shared principles. we'll put the interests of the american people above the interests of the politicians. and i know something about leading. because i've led before. in business. in the olimp exs. in my
we'll save medicare and social security. both for current and near retirees and for the generation to come. we'll restore the $716 billion that president obama has taken from medicare to pay for his vaunted obut macare. we'll reform health care. tame its growth. and the cost that's been skyrocketing to provide for those with pre-existing conditions as well and to assure that every american has access to health care. we're going to replace government choice in health care with consumer choice....
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. >> if medicare is going to go bankrupt in 2024. i do not want medicare to go bankrupt. i want to fix medicare. i want to make sure seniors in wisconsin are protected. in the year 2000, we have a choice. i have never supported a voucher. i support a program that people who are 50 in the year 2015. employer benefits -- >> through the weekend, watch more debates in key house, senate, and governor races on c- span. >> tonight, we will take you live to iowa's first district for a debate. we will have that at 7:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. the army chief of staff spoke in washington about the future of the army. he said there is incredible uncertainty across the globe. he talked about how the army is dealing with those threats. >> we have to put that against what i consider to be the operation of strategic environment. here is much discussion about this and there should be a lot of discussion about this. the one thing i know is that there is incredible uncertainty as we look toward the future. every monday, i have my intelligence people come in and brief me. we put a map up. i
. >> if medicare is going to go bankrupt in 2024. i do not want medicare to go bankrupt. i want to fix medicare. i want to make sure seniors in wisconsin are protected. in the year 2000, we have a choice. i have never supported a voucher. i support a program that people who are 50 in the year 2015. employer benefits -- >> through the weekend, watch more debates in key house, senate, and governor races on c- span. >> tonight, we will take you live to iowa's first district for a...
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rather, he raided $716 billion from the medicare to pay for obama-care. the list goes on. he said he would a lower health premiums by $2,000 a family. but instead they have gone up by $3,000 per family. the average american family pays $2,000 a year more for gasoline than when president obama was elected. i will mention one more thing. he said he would work across the aisle on the most important issues. this is interesting. he has not met on the economy or on the budget or on jobs with the republican leader of the house or the senate since july. and so, instead of bridging the divide, he is making it wider. people wonder how is that he has fallen so short of what he promised. i think it is in part because he has never led, he has never worked across the aisle, he has never truly understood how jobs are created in this economy. by the way, he is making new promises. promises he will not be able to keep because he admits he is planning on staying on the same path. the same course we have been on will not lead to a better destination. the same path we are on means $20 trillio
rather, he raided $716 billion from the medicare to pay for obama-care. the list goes on. he said he would a lower health premiums by $2,000 a family. but instead they have gone up by $3,000 per family. the average american family pays $2,000 a year more for gasoline than when president obama was elected. i will mention one more thing. he said he would work across the aisle on the most important issues. this is interesting. he has not met on the economy or on the budget or on jobs with the...
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he rated $716 billion from medicare to pay for obama care. host: that is mitt romney on the campaign trail in colorado. we are asking you who is going to win and why. among those selected to give the annual selection, the prediction is that mitt romney will get 261 electoral votes, the president would get 277, and the president will win. the horse racing columnist is predicting the opposite, moronic in 204, the president 254. all of the people, of all the people selected for the crystal ball, only two are predicting that mitt romney will win. many predicting that iran will get 240, compared to 298 for the president. reid wilson thinks the president will get 294 electoral votes compared to 2444 mitt romney. there is this prediction from jim cramer, 444 the president. that would be a landslide. our question this morning, tell us who is going to win and why. ruby is on the phone from california. caller: i think that romney is going to win. i think people can really see that obama is a lawyer and he is a good talker. and he is a good rally year.
he rated $716 billion from medicare to pay for obama care. host: that is mitt romney on the campaign trail in colorado. we are asking you who is going to win and why. among those selected to give the annual selection, the prediction is that mitt romney will get 261 electoral votes, the president would get 277, and the president will win. the horse racing columnist is predicting the opposite, moronic in 204, the president 254. all of the people, of all the people selected for the crystal ball,...
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rather he raided $716 from medicare for his obama care plan. he said heed lower healthcare premiums for the average family by $2000 a year which now they're higher. and gasoline the american family pays $2,000 more a year than when the president was elected. he said he would work across the aisle on important issues. he has not met on the economy or budget or jobs with either the republican leader of the house or senate since july. so instead of bridging the divide he's made it wider. how has he fallen so sort of what he promised. in part because he never led before or worked across the aisle or understood how jobs are created in the real economy. so today he makes new promises. promises heel be enable to keep because he admits he's going to stay on the same path. the same path means $20 trillion in debt. it means crippling unemployment. stagnant take home pay. depressed home values and a devastated military. unless we change we may be looking at another recession. the question of this election comes down to this do you want more of the same or
rather he raided $716 from medicare for his obama care plan. he said heed lower healthcare premiums for the average family by $2000 a year which now they're higher. and gasoline the american family pays $2,000 more a year than when the president was elected. he said he would work across the aisle on important issues. he has not met on the economy or budget or jobs with either the republican leader of the house or senate since july. so instead of bridging the divide he's made it wider. how has...
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i am on medicare now, certainly the government takes my. when i was working, you have no idea how many times, because i was the person who put the insurance payments into the computer when i came to the hospital, and you have no idea how the insurance companies to turn down a thing this. host: even though they make their comments known about the presidential race, we are focusing on cost and said races in your state. a couple of stories, at this one out of new york when it comes to hurricane sandy, federal money do not up to states and hurricane aftermath, the first trickle of federal funds start to go out. 29 million to rebuild highways. $30 million to hire temporary workers to help with the cleanup. it is certainly to the multibillion dollar bill for the government. the federal office has 7.5 billion to spend. an additional 5 billion could be made available withinan offsets required in other government programs. that is in the new york times. when it comes to how the money is concerned, this out of the new york post. the state labor depar
i am on medicare now, certainly the government takes my. when i was working, you have no idea how many times, because i was the person who put the insurance payments into the computer when i came to the hospital, and you have no idea how the insurance companies to turn down a thing this. host: even though they make their comments known about the presidential race, we are focusing on cost and said races in your state. a couple of stories, at this one out of new york when it comes to hurricane...
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it has been, especially because of medicare and medicaid. but the whole thing is long-term projections. now, the president -- the government does not create business. it's small business people, but it's not -- the government can set up an environment that is helpful towards business, but under large taxation and policies that will crush business, i see that as a route that obama is taking. right now the free market is struggling. host: in the "financial times" this morning, u.s. lanes to stay on growth course -- u.s. lanes to stay on growth course. like a yacht in the wind, no sooner does the u.s. economy catch a breeze from one direction than a gust comes in from another and it struggle toss move forward. growth was in the third quarter of 2012 as gross domestic product rose at an annualized rate of 2%. housing gave the economy a boost. businesses, investment set it back. the growth data point to an economy with little momentum leaves considerable doubt about its resilience to the so-called fiscal cliff of tax rises and spending cuts due a
it has been, especially because of medicare and medicaid. but the whole thing is long-term projections. now, the president -- the government does not create business. it's small business people, but it's not -- the government can set up an environment that is helpful towards business, but under large taxation and policies that will crush business, i see that as a route that obama is taking. right now the free market is struggling. host: in the "financial times" this morning, u.s....
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so you know republicans were obviously worried that medicare or social security or education dr it would blow up and it didn't. so both sides were very, very relieved with how the vice presidential debate went. >> one or two more questions. the gentleman right here also on the aisle with the glasses. go ahead. >> i have kind of a long question but i'm going to make it short. the first one is going back to the debates in general and substance versus style versus the shaping by the media. i talked to some people and i've heard even on interviews that people when they heard obama's rhett oric they felt more specifics versus governor romney's statement. so that's one. the other one is the issue of term limits. wouldn't it be better to have a six-year president so they could just have one short campaign? >> jimmy carter had that idea years ago. how did that work out for him? six-year term limit was the quefment and the other question was about the debates about who was more specific, who was more particular? >> if you ask democrats they'll say president obama was more and if you ask republica
so you know republicans were obviously worried that medicare or social security or education dr it would blow up and it didn't. so both sides were very, very relieved with how the vice presidential debate went. >> one or two more questions. the gentleman right here also on the aisle with the glasses. go ahead. >> i have kind of a long question but i'm going to make it short. the first one is going back to the debates in general and substance versus style versus the shaping by the...